Village Plat Maps

A plat map is an area of
land showing actual or
proposed features such
as houses, churches,
cemeteries, schools,
etc. Below are the plat
maps that are currently
available for the Black
Sea area.

DAI Microfilm T-81, #318 contains 104 sketches of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Dobrudscha village plat maps. They were drawn by people who had been evacuated from these areas during the Resettlement in 1940. Some are simple drawings showing rectangles for yards and the name of the head of household in the box while others show a village sketch where farmyard lots are identified, the number that was assigned to each, who occupied them, names of streets, roads leading to neighboring villages, indicating where rivers ran, the location of village streams and wells, cemeteries, churches, other public buildings, etc.